The Last Word The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 22 Jun 2001 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1462 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== Patrick O'Leary — 22 Jun 2001, 09:48 OK, let's settle this. PALE FIRE is a masterpiece. The SUN books aren't Fanfic. Jesus is either God or not. The Gospels are either history or not. "Sirius" is a pun on "serious." I think. There is a very large amusement park outside my present lodgings. Rave On, you crazy Lupes. Patrick O'Leary *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 22 Jun 2001, 09:25 follows, by subject match Patrick O'Leary > PALE FIRE is a masterpiece. Stipulated with the reservation that I don't personally _like_ it. > The SUN books aren't Fanfic. Enthusiastically endorsed. > Jesus is either God or not. > The Gospels are either history or not. Either stipulated or not stipulated. > "Sirius" is a pun on "serious." I think. > There is a very large amusement park outside my present lodgings. I'll happily stipulate that you know what you think and what is outside your present lodgings. > Rave On, you crazy Lupes. This is a Pink Floyd reference? --G'blattid *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alex David Groce — 22 Jun 2001, 13:16 follows, by subject match Dan'l Danehy-Oakes Patrick O'Leary said: > Rave On, you crazy Lupes. Who, I wonder, is Syd Barrett here? -- "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------